Ms. Maysaa Abuzant

College of Humanities

Department of English Language

I have started using Moodle in teaching my classes about a year and a half ago, and since then every semester I always have to have a class via Moodle. Using Moodle in teaching was not easy at the beginning, I used to spend a lot of time and effort in planning each and every lesson, as lessons have to be interactive, enable students’ autonomy, as well as be in line with what we do in the face-to-face sessions. Despite all the hard work that planning a Moodle session requires, it is very rewarding at the end of the day, for both the teacher and the students. Using Moodle in the classroom makes the lesson memorable and entertaining. It increases students’ motivation and allows them to use a number of resources available to search for knowledge beyond the classroom doors, which promotes students’ autonomy. Moodle also provides a great tool for students to express their own mind freely. Moreover, Moodle suits learners’ kinesthetic, auditory and visual learning which guarantees achieving the lessons ILOs in the most efficient way possible. I mostly use Moodle in my English Language Teaching Methods course, where it allows me to express clearly to the students the importance of using educational technologies in teaching English, as they can experience it firsthand. During my time using Moodle I have experienced some challenges, but mostly they were technical, like the number of computer labs that would not accommodate the number of students I have in my course along with and not finding some of the equipment I needed such as headphones and speakers.